Plaintiff
James Wanner ("Plaintiff ') and Defendants Hormel
Foods Corporation ("Defendant Hormel") and United
Food & Commercial Workers Local Union No. 293
("Defendant Local No. 293")
("Defendants") (all collectively the "Parties
" or separately a "Party"), by and through
their respective counsel, have stipulated to the terms of
this Protective Order. The Court, being fully advised of its
content, and for good cause shown, hereby ORDERS:

1.
Purpose of Order.

The
purpose of this Order is to prevent the disclosure of matters
deemed confidential under the terms of this Order and to
facilitate the exchange of information between the Parties.
The Order is necessary to protect all the parties and other
persons from annoyance and embarrassment. Discovery in this
case may seek private information concerning all the Parties
and nonparties, including, for example, but not limited to,
the personnel files of current and/or former employees of
Defendant Hormel; info1mation concerning current or fo1mer
union members of Defendant Local Un ion No. 293; or documents
concerning Defendants' financial status, internal
policies, personnel and operational policies, or other
non-public, confidential ru1d/or proprietary information
regarding Defendants' business operations.

The
privacy interests in such info1mation substantially outweigh
the public 's right of access to judicial records. Good
cause exists for the issuance of a protective order under
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c), in order to prevent
and/or limit the disclosure of documents and information the
Parties' appropriately deem confidential.

2.
Confidential Information.

Without
waiving any objections as to the discoverability of such
information, the Parties have agreed that certain categories
of documents and information, if produced or disclosed during
this litigation, shall be used only for purposes of this
lawsuit and w ill be treated as Confidential Information. The
Parties have further agreed that this shall include, but is
not necessarily limited to, information relating to the
following topics: confidential personal, personnel, or human
resources related inf01mation of Defendant Hormel's
current and former employees who are not parties to this
lawsuit; confidential personal or employment related
information of Defendant Local No. 293's current or
former union members who are not parties to this lawsuit;
confidential financial and/or net worth information regarding
Defendants; confidential and non-public information regarding
Defendants' business operations, internal processes and
policies, personnel and operational policies, and other
info1mation regarding Defendants' business operations.

3.
Designating Material as Confidential.

Any
Party to this action may designate as confidential any
document or discovery response produced after entry of this
Order by conspicuously stamping or labeling the document or
discovery response with the word "Confidential."
Any "Confidential" indication or designation shall
apply not only to the original materials, but also to all
copies, excerpts, abstracts, analyses, and summaries thereof.
Documents and information produced by any of the Parties
shall not be treated as confidential pursuant to this Order
unless they are stamped or labeled in such a fashion, except
as otherwise provided in this Order. The inadvertent failure
to designate material as "Confidential" does not
preclude a Party from subsequently making such a designation,
and, in that case, the material (and any copy of the
material) is treated as such only after the material has been
properly designated.

Parties
to this action also may designate deposition testimony as
Confidential Information by advising opposing counsel in
writing within 30 days after receipt of a copy of the
transcript, or at such other time as may be mutually agreed
upon by the Parties, of the pages and lines of the deposition
that the designating Party requires to be treated as
confidential. All deposition transcripts shall be treated as
Confidential Information until the expiration of 30 days
after receipt of a copy of the transcript unless otherwise
agreed to by the Parties in writing or on the record at the
deposition. Any Party may, on the record at the deposition,
designate deposition testimony as Confidential Information by
advising al1 persons present that the Party believes that the
portion of the deposition in question falls under the scope
of this Order.

4.
Disclosure of Confidential Information.

Confidential
Information is to be treated as such by the Party or other
person receiving the material and shall be utilized by such
Party or other person only for the prosecution or defense of
this case and in accordance with the provisions of this
Stipulated Protective Order. Except as agreed upon by the
Parties, or ordered by the Court, disclosure of Confidential
Inf01mation is limited to:

(a) the Parties (including the corporate representatives of
Defendants and their respective former and/or current
officers, ...

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